A Little Bitty Tear: The Nashville Years 1961-1965 (1994)

About this title: Burl Ives did score a handful of country hits in the period covered by this five-disc box set, but don't assume that his Nashville years were devoted to cry-in-your-beer country music. Ives had more pop than country hits during this time, and recorded Hawaiian music, sacred songs, cowboy songs, and pop oldies in addition to the novelties and saga songs that comprise the bulk of the material. Fans of the faux-historical saga song fad, typified by Lefty Frizzell's "Long Black Veil" (which Ives covers) and "Saginaw, Michigan," will find much more of the same here. Nearly every track benefits ... read more

Tracks:

1. A Little Bitty Tear [Cochran]
2. Long Black Veil [Wilkin/Dill]
3. Shanghied [Tillis/Wilkin]
4. The Almighty Dollar Bill [Walker]
5. Forty Hour Week [Adams/Blake]
6. Royal Telephone [Traditional]
7. Delia [Traditional]
8. Oh, My Side [Smith/McGehen]
9. Lenora, Let Your Hair Hang Down [Clayton]
10. Mocking Bird Hill [Horton]
11. I Walk the Line [Cash]
12. Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes [Traditional/Public]
13. Mama Don't Want No Peas 'N' Rice 'N' Coconut Oil [Charles/Gilbert]
14. Empty Saddles [Hill]
15. The Oregon Trail [Hill/DeRose]
16. Home on the Range [Traditional]
17. When the Bloom Is on the Sage [Vincent/Wright]
18. My Adobe Hacienda [Massey/Penny]
19. Cowboy's Dream [Traditional]
20. Mexicali Rose [Stone/Tenney]
21. The Last Roundup [Hill]
22. O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie [Traditional]
23. (I Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle [Loesser/Lilley]
24. Cool Water [Nolan]
25. Tumbling Tumbleweeds [Nolan]
26. Holding Hands for Joe [Howard/Baham]
27. Sixteen Fathoms Down [Tillis]
28. What You Gonna Do Leroy [Tillis]
29. Brooklyn Bridge [Tillis/Walker]
30. Poor Little Jimmie [Wayne]
31. Thumbin' Johnny Brown [Fox]
32. Funny Way of Laughin' [Cochran]
33. That's All I Can Remember [Tillis/Wilkin]
34. Ninety Nine [Anderson]
35. Call Me Mr. In-Between [Howard]
36. I Ain't Comin' Home Tonight [Miller]
37. How Do You Fall Out of Love [Batchelor/Roberts]
38. In Foggy Old London [Robinson]
39. Mother Wouldn't Do That [Self]
40. Bring Them In [Ogden]
41. Let the Lower Lights Be Burning [Bliss]
42. Beulah Land [Sweney/Stites]
43. Standing on the Promises [Kelso]
44. Fairest Lord Jesus [Public Domain]
45. We're Marching to Zion [Watts]
46. Sunshine in My Soul [Hewitt/Sweney]
47. Blessed Assurance [Crosby/Knapp]
48. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms [Hoffman/Showalter]
49. Where He Leads Me [Blandy]
50. Will There Be Any Stairs [Hewitt/Sweney]
51. When They Ring Those Golden Bells [Traditional/Public]
52. The Same Old Hurt [Cochran]
53. Wishin' She Was Here (Instead of Me) [Howard]
54. Busted [Howard]
55. Poor Boy in a Rich Man's Town [Howard]
56. Mary Ann Regrets [Howard]
57. Billy Bayou [Miller]
58. The Moon Is High [Miller]
59. Green Turtle [Tillis/Ives]
60. Bury the Bottle With Me [Cochran/McCall]
61. The Blizzard [Howard]
62. It Comes and Goes [Anderson]
63. I'm the Boss [Howard]
64. The Same Old Hurt [Remake] [Cochran]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.